Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
From Sydney Pollack
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
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